A few Raw processing UI tweak ideas

[Peter Neill]

Hello all.  

Lovey to be on the forums.

I recently started using Affinity extensively in my workflow, which until recently was purely Photoshop and Lightroom for the last 15 years. I've been really astounded my a number of things. The sheer fluidity is one, the level of user interface granular control is another (in relation to the rapid feedback allowing more nuanced control).  I especially love the Raw processing in Affinity photo. I work in very demanding low light situations (Live music) and as such the power of the Raw processing in V2 has become apparent to me very quickly.

I've noticed a couple of changes that I thought could be useful, and for the sake of been constructive, sharing them here:

1. Labelling   

I'd love to be able to label the overlays and Snapshots with custom names.

 

2. Preset accessibility

I use custom presets heavily in many apps, and having 'Save current settings as New Preset' or something shorter would be more convenient than the burger menu, and more visible so people would use this feature more.

 

3. Toning UI

Numerical feedback on selected values would be good, or perhaps a neighbouring histogram view instead

 

4. 'Fit'

Love to see a 'Fit' option here

 

5. Unrelated Feature, and nothing to do with Raw but a wishlist item for me, as someone who has to share layered files often with agencies record labels etc, is a data annotation feature.  Essentially draggable notes that you can drag onto an image, with either manual entry, or for instance displaying the hex of a colour dynamically at a given pixel coordinate (or some other value such as average colour of an area).

These would only exist in AF photo files, but might offer to save as a raster layer if saving to a layered Tiff for example.

Please pardon the terrible, awful mockup here, I'm aware how naff it looks!

 

 

 

Again, just some thoughts, feel free to disregard!  I think however some of these may be useful to users similar to I.

Cheers and thank you for doing what you do,

Pete

p.s. Sorry for the Rick Roll.